The climate challenge is often side-lined, by some of the more immediate and practical problems facing the anti-austerity movement. It remains that Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from around 280ppm (parts per million) in the last two hundred years to a record 400ppm, concentrations not seen on earth for about 3 million years. We cannot ignore  UN secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, when he says that climate change is the “greatest collective challenge facing humankind today”

 Student Assembly Against Austerity reports on the victory of the #StopTheSellOff campaign.

Shelley Asquith takes a closer look at the new Minister for Universities, Greg Clark and explains where his allegiances lie.

Alex Kenny, NUT Executive Member, writes on the ousting of Gove, the importance of the NUT's 'social movement trade unionism', and how the struggle for education must now grow in strength as  Gove's and the Con-Dem government's education policies remain intact.

Tomorrow, 10 July 2014, up to two million public sector workers will be joining together in coordinated strike action, including member of the trade unions NUT, PCS, FBU, Unite the Union, Unison and NIPSA.

"Across Britain, communities are finding ways not only to survive in an increasingly hostile system, but to fight for a better future. Something's changed in Westminster, too. The wolves have shed their sheep's clothing" writes Marienna Pope-Weidemann in the Huffington Post. 

The 50,000 strong demo on Saturday June 21 included many brilliant and inspiring speakers and artists from various community campaigns, the trade union movement, politicians, and organisations working together for an alternative to austerity, one that puts people and planet before profit. Here are some videos.